Henry Carter Hull

Get the Summary of Patricia Evangelista's Some People Need Killing in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Some People Need Killing" by Patricia Evangelista is a poignant exploration of the human cost of President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs in the Philippines. The book follows the story of Lady Love, an eleven-year-old girl from Manila's slums, whose parents are killed by masked gunmen enforcing Duterte's anti-drug...

Everyone knows Singapore as the Lion City and the story behind of a Palembang prince, Sang Nila Utama, sighting a lion on this island that was first published 200 years ago in John Leyden's translation of the Malay classic Sejarah Melayu. But few people have actually read the Sejarah Melayu to realise the fairytale-like claims of Singapore's supposed medieval founder as a descendant of Alexander the Great, and the son of an Indian king who tried to...

A full account of the Luzon campaign, from the planning stages to the surrender of the Japanese general Yamashita. The Luzon campaign of 1945 was the longest island campaign of the Pacific War, lasting from January 1945 to September 1945, and only ended with the surrender of Imperial Japan. It is often overlooked or mentioned in passing by most histories of that war, yet hundreds of thousands of Americans and Japanese fought in some of the worst...

This book presents most of Mother's Matrimandir talks, including how she conceived the idea for this special concentration and meditation building in Auroville. Her talks about this subject were with the architect Roger Anger, various disciples from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, and various Aurovilians. Her reflections on such a project started as early as 1954, and the talks ended with her passing on 17th November 1973. All other construction decisions...

"Hessler has a marvelous sense of the intonations and gestures that give life to the moment." -The New York Times Book Review From Peter Hessler, the New York Times bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town, comes Country Driving, the third and final book in his award-winning China trilogy. Country Driving addresses the human side of the economic revolution in China, focusing on economics and development, and shows how the auto boom helps...

In May 1943, a self-described "really young, green, ignorant lieutenant" assumed command of a new US Marine Corps company. His even younger enlisted Marines were learning to use an untested weapon, the M4A2 "Sherman" medium tank. His sole combat veteran was the company bugler, who had salvaged his dress cap and battered horn from a sinking aircraft carrier. Just six months later, the company would be thrown into one of the ghastliest battles of World...

This book explores the cultural landscape of Afghanistan with its rich and intricate tapestry woven with the threads of diverse tribes and ethnolinguistic groups, each contributing unique hues to the nation's vibrant mosaic. Situated at the crossroads of Central and South Asia, Afghanistan's complex geography has given rise to a mosaic of ethnicities, languages, and traditions that collectively shape the identity of this ancient land. To explore this...

The untold story of US Special Forces in Laos, one of the longest secret wars of the Cold War-by a military historian and Special Forces veteran. The Secret War in Laos was one of the first "long wars" fought by US Special Forces, spanning a period of about thirteen years. It was one of the largest CIA-paramilitary operations of the time, kept out of the view of the American public until now. Between 1959 and 1974, Green Berets were covertly deployed...

This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Jacques Bertrand, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Collaborative Master's Program in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. This fascinating conversation explores Jacques Bertrand's extensive research on the politics and political change in Southeast Asia and provides detailed insights into this extensive and complex...

Sheds crucial new light on the epochal U.S. interventions in Southeast Asia after WWII. Antiwar activist Fred Branfman describes the tragic lives of Laotian peasants under U.S. bombing. Cambodia scholar Ben Kiernan and colleague Owen Taylor illuminate the course of Cambodia history after unprecedented U.S. bombing. The book further includes classic work by Noam Chomsky, Nick Turse, and Edward Herman.